![]() ![]() That said, I always hate the track-by-track thematic analyses that the writers of this series feel they have to indulge in, and there's way too much back-story about high school projects and the inferior first record ( Tweez, about which the author seems to know more than Spiderland). At least the author knows music theory enough to be able to discuss chord sequences and time-signatures (rare among rock writers), and a few basic facts help put the album in context: that Slint rehearsed their arrangements meticulously/obsessively for four months prior to recording that the vocals had never been put to the music before that the album was recorded and mixed in four days, in few takes, with virtually no overdubs (in other words, while most bands were using multitracking, metronomes and digital editing to produce a simulacrum of rock music, Slint used the tools of rock - four guys in a room with bass, drums and two guitars - to produce something revolutionary). Still, when there's so little information around you're happy for all you can get. Stephen Immerwahr has since then been playing with the band Raymond, while Douglas Scharin continued in June of 44 and later HiM.Very dry, not very detailed book about one of the most seminal, mysterious albums since punk. David Grubbs also participated on the album. ![]() He was replaced by Douglas Scharin of the band Rex.Ĭodeine's next and final release was the full-length album The White Birch, released in 1994. A somewhat different full-band version of the song appears on Codeine's next album, but titled Wird.īrokaw left the band after the release of Barely Real to play full-time with his other band Come. is a solo performance on piano by David Grubbs (of Bastro, Squirrel Bait and Gastr del Sol). Some of these songs were re-recorded for the final album. Immerwahr rejected several of the songs after the recording session. Their second release, the Barely Real EP was issued in 1992. The album was released on Sub Pop the following year. The band's original tone, marked by slow tempos, Immerwahr's nasal and apathetic vocals, and Engle's ringing Telecaster, did not evolve much during their career.Ĭodeine released their first album Frigid Stars on the German label Glitterhouse in 1990. Codeine pioneered the slowcore and sadcore subgenres of indie rock, but with a more experimental attitude than other bands in the genre, such as Low, Idaho and Red House Painters. American indie rock band formed in New York in 1989 by members Stephen Immerwahr (vocal, bass), Chris Brokaw (drums) and John Engle (guitar). ![]()
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